The NSA has been tapping
phone lines and instead of President Obama saying that he knows about the
situation, he is being ignorant and said he did not know about the NSA tapping.
Though some support Obama’s claim, delving deeper in the matter has shown that
the claim made by the president was not true. An official in the White House is
quoted to say, “Obama was briefed and given detailed documents describing
what's known as the framework for the surveillance programs” (NSA Spying
Claims: Five Things You Need to Know). A high-ranking unnamed NSA official told
the Bild am Sonntag, a German newspaper, that “Obama did not halt the
operation but rather let it continue” (Obama ‘knew and
Approved’ NSA Spying on Chancellor Merkel – Report). Similarly, in the play Oedipus by
Sophocles, when Teiresias said Oedipus was the murderer while all of the
evidence was still pointing to Oedipus, there was a great denial from him and
he was choosingly ignorant of the truth. Even later when Jocasta, Oedipus’
mother and wife, told him in detail how King Laius was killed, he was still
willingly ignorant The prophecy, location, story of the murder, and a witness
all pointed to him and it still took a while after that to accept the fact.
They were both willingly ignorant chose to ignore the truth, in Oedipus’ case
his wife being his mother and killing the former king and in Obama’s case
denying the fact that he actually knew about the NSA spying.
Works Cited
Labott,
Elise. "NSA Spying Claims: Five Things You Need to Know." CNN. Cable News
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